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Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....

Blaine Kern remembers listening to a boxing match when he came home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

Lydia Grant witnessed the attack on the American facilities at Pearl Harbor firsthand. The Japanese strafed the...

Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...

Constance Negrotto worked at the huge facility built by Andrew Jackson Higgins at Michoud [Annotator’s Note: near New...

[Annotator's Note: Geraldine Nyman was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and transported...

At the launch of PC-567 [Annotator's Note: USS PC-567, launched 11 April 1942], George R. Bolin's father, Lodwick...

Lillian Drucker's brothers did not talk much about the war to her afterwards and she was afraid to ask. [Annotator's...

Raymond F. Downs was born in March 1934 in San Antonio, Texas. He and his brother played sports in school. Downs grew...

Edwin McAuliffe's mother worked as an army aircraft spotter during the war. She started doing that shortly after his...

Leather was needed for the servicemen's shoes. Audrey Maduell had to have ballet shoes and others. She had to use extra...

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